Im_Spartacus wrote:
Both piccs and I have explained many times why we felt the way we have, if you want to search for it. I'm not going to type it all again and spam onto another thread if you missed it, and i'm not going to get into a debate about the rights and wrongs of Mancini on this thread either.
My post has fuck all to do with that anyway mate, John has form for spitting his dummy out over people who have a different view to his own, and so to try and save face when he's found to be wrong, he attacks those who disagree with him, as he has done on virtually every post directed at piccs in the last 6 months. He did it over Hughes, when I called him out as trying to be an intellectual bully with his condescending attitude to another poster, he's done it over Mancini, and he's also doing the same with cuntish posts talking down to people who disagree with him over Soriano and Tricky.
Most people laugh it off a 'good old John' - and to be honest I don't think he does it intentionally, but some of the posts recently have been nasty, personal and uncalled for, and its repeating a pattern that happened when Hughes was sacked, a pattern I find particularly unpleasant.
But back on topic, if the new manager shows the same inability to learn from their mistakes, and repeats them again and again and again, I'll take the same view. If he makes mistakes and we get twatted 5.0, but shows he's learned from that, good on him. If he doesn't learn from them, are we not just stuck with the same sort of stubborn ass we have just parted company with - in which case why the fuck would we want to keep him?
I'm just glad that the club have seen that appointing a new manager shouldn't involve throwing the baby out with the bath water, and that the approach is that the club will have stability whoever the head coach happens to be at the time, allowing us to be very flexible with appointment of managers/head coaches, and build a squad that ANY manager who employs a similar football philosophy to the club, should have a decent chance of success.
If they don't, move on to the next one with a minimum of disruption - because as we have seen with Mancini, bringing success to the club doesn't necessarily prove you have all the tools to do the job, and the time eventually will come for you to move on - and its about that transition being as simple as possible in the future, not just for stability, but for FFP and the endless turnover of players that changing managers generally brings with it.
I consider John a friend so won't believe he has malice in his heart when he writes. I have to say though, I find it slightly annoying that it's suggested that I love us to sack managers and was keen for Hughes to go. I don't and I wasn't. I'm usually a 'pro stability' man. ButI fully respect his opinions, and he knows that, just in this case I din't quite get why he has such a bee in his bonnet.
The whole Spafia criticism seems strange and uncalled for, I get the feeling it is an excuse by those who are upset at Bob's sacking. I don't understand those who say it was handled badly. These things invariably are a bit ugly, and I'm not sure what people wanted us to say regarding rumours of the change of manager.
Anyway. I ferently hope that it's onwards and upwards with Hells Pells and we get the kind of football that will have people saying "wow, this is more like it". We'll see.
